Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Obama Is Going To Help Egypt?

Obama on Monday said he would ask the U.S. Congress for US$1.3 billion per year in military aid for Egypt and said he would lift holds on aircraft, missiles and tanks for Cairo in place since October 2013, the White House said in a statement.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Monday said he would ask the U.S. Congress for US$1.3 billion per year in military aid for Egypt and said he would lift holds on aircraft, missiles and tanks for Cairo in place since October 2013, the White House said in a statement.

Obama also said that the United States would discontinue starting in fiscal 2018 Egypt’s use of cash flow financing, a financial mechanism that allows Egypt to buy equipment on credit, the White House said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is releasing military aid to Egypt that was suspended after the 2013 coup in that country.

The White House says Obama is lifting the hold on sending F-16 fighter jets, tanks and other material to Egypt. The U.S. has been weighing whether to lift the hold to help combat the extremist threat spilling over from Libya and in the Sinai Peninsula.

But the White House says it is not issuing a certification that Egypt has made progress toward democracy. Instead, the U.S. is maintaining that the aid is in the interest of U.S. national security.

The U.S. had to do one or the other to unblock the aid. The funds were suspended 21 months ago when the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Abbas Wants Arabs to Bomb Gaza Strip?!?!?!?

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is calling on Arab countries to launch a military strike against the Gaza Strip -- even as the PA plans to bring "war crimes" charges against Israel for doing exactly the same thing in the summer of 2014.

The Arabs are allowed to attack the Gaza strip to remove Hamas from power, while Israel is not even allowed to launch airstrikes at those who are firing rockets at its cities.
The PA's call should be brought to the attention of the International Criminal Court if and when Abbas proceeds with his plan to file "war crimes" charges against Israel for its war against Hamas.

This call should also be brought to the attention of Western governments and international human rights organizations that condemned Israel during Operation Protective Edge.
They also need to ask Abbas whether he also plans to file "war crimes" charges against his Arab brethren once they start bombing the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Authority (PA), whose leaders say they are planning to file "war crimes" charges against Israel over its last war with Hamas, is now calling on Arab countries to launch a military strike against the Gaza Strip, similar to the Saudi-led campaign against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.

The call to launch an Arab military strike against the Gaza Strip was made by Mahmoud Habbash, a senior advisor to PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
Commenting on the Saudi-led military operations in Yemen, Habbash, who also holds the post of Chief Islamic Judge, said in a Friday sermon at a mosque in Ramallah:

"Protecting legitimacy in an Arab country is a duty of all Arab leaders. They must take the initiative to strike with an iron fist against those who come out against legitimacy, regardless of the time and place, starting from Palestine. What happened in the Gaza Strip was a [Hamas] coup. There should be no dialogue with those behind the coup and they must be hit with an iron fist."

The following day, Abbas himself hinted that he too would like to see the Arab states launch a military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Addressing the 26th Arab League Summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, Abbas declared: "I hope the Arab states carry out the same policy that they are in Yemen in the case of all Arab nations that suffer from internal conflicts -- such as Palestine, Syria, Libya and Iraq."

When Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in the summer of last year in response to the firing of rockets at Israeli cities, the Palestinian Authority and its leaders, including Abbas, were quick to condemn Israelis for allegedly perpetrating "war crimes" against Palestinians.

Relatives of the Coptic Christians beheaded last month by jihadists in Libya – their deaths immortalized in a gory video set against the backdrop of a Mediterranean beach – are facing new extremist-Muslim violence as they seek to build a church to honor their murdered loved ones.

An angry mob in the Upper Egyptian village of Al Our – the proposed site of the church because it was home to 13 of the 21 Christians murdered in the mass “beachfront” decapitation – descended on the community’s current church after the midday Islamic prayer Friday and chanted that they’d never allow construction of the new place of worship to begin, witnesses told Egyptian activists in the U.S.

Benghazi Committee Summons Hillary

A House panel Tuesday formally requested Hillary Clinton to testify about the private server and email account she used while serving as secretary of state.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, sent a request to Clinton's personal attorney, David E. Kendall, requesting that Clinton appear before the committee no later than May 1 for a transcribed interview about the server and email.

The request comes after Kendall told Gowdy that the server had been wiped clean and that it would be impossible to recover the 30,000 emails Clinton deleted last year.

Gowdy, in his request to Kendall, also asked Clinton to "reconsider" her refusal to turn over the server to a neutral third party, which he called "highly unusual, if not unprecedented."

Clinton said she only deleted personal emails and turned over every work-related message to the State Department, which is reviewing the data to filter out classified information.

"Because of the Secretary's unique arrangement with herself as it relates to public records during and after her tenure as Secretary of State."

Gowdy wrote, "this Committee is left with no alternative but to request Secretary Clinton appear before this Committee for a transcribed interview to better understand decisions the Secretary made relevant to the creation, maintenance, retention, and ultimately deletion of public records.

This Has Nothing to Do With Islam

Gruesome new images have emerged showing Islamic State militants stoning a blindfolded and bound man and woman to death in Iraq after they were accused of having sex before marriage.

Taken in the ISIS-stronghold of Mosul in Nineveh province, the shocking images show a large crowd gathered to watch the jihadis murder the defenceless couple.

Young boys clamber onto their fathers’ shoulders to get a better view of the man and woman being charged with ‘fornication’, before the familiar white-bearded face of ISIS’s elderly Mosul-based executioner-in-chief Abu Ansar al-Ansari orders their stoning to death.

Catholic University Officials Approve Club to Raise Money For ISIS

Administrators at a Catholic university in Florida agreed to help an honors student start a campus club that would send money and supplies to the ISIS terror army.

Hidden camera footage released Monday morning shows officials and faculty at Barry University advising a senior – identified only as ‘Laura’ – about the best way to secure funding for a club she called ‘Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.’

‘I want to start fundraising efforts on campus, and what I want to do is raise funds to send overseas,’ she told Derek Bley, the school’s Coordinator for Leadership Development and Student Organizations.

Bley offered to help her create the organization and agreed with her request to ‘pass out Islamic State flags and educate people’ at an annual student ‘Festival of Nations’ fair.

The video is from Project Veritas, a conservative ‘guerilla film-making group’ that last week captured a Cornell University dean agreeing that ISIS and Hamas would be welcome at the Ivy League school.

"If Reporters Can't Even Mention Your Religion Without Feeling Compelled To Vigorously Insists That It Has Nothing to do With Terrorism, Your Religion Probably Has Something To Do With Terrorism"

Morning session talks between Iran, P5+1, ended after just 35 minutes

Reports
from Lausanne say that the talks may not end in a framework agreement,
as had been hoped, but rather with a joint statement that outlines the
points of agreement and disagreement between the sides.
Meanwhile MEMRI reports Iran has not given in on ANY OF THEIR MAIN OBJECTIVES

It
should be emphasized that Iran has not backed down in any way, at any
stage, from the positions with which it began the talks:1. Tehran rejects the removal of its enriched uranium from Iran.2. Tehran rejects a gradual lifting of the sanctions.3. Tehran rejects restriction of the number of its centrifuges.4. Tehran rejects intrusive inspections and snap inspections.5. Tehran rejects any halt to its research and development activity.6. Tehran rejects any change to the nature of its heavy water reactor at Arak.7. Tehran rejects any closure of its secret enrichment site at Fordow.8. Tehran rejects all restrictions to its nuclear activity following the agreement’s expiration.9. Tehran rejects the inclusion of its long-range missile program in the negotiations.10. Tehran rejects reporting on its previous clandestine military nuclear activity.11. Tehran rejects allowing inspections of military sites suspected of conducting nuclear activity.

Poll: US by 59-31 support nuke deal with Iran? Uh... not so fast, ABC

ABC/WaPo Poll: Clear majority supports nuclear deal with Iran (??)

Why isn’t the headline :

Clear majority have no confidence in any deal with Iran

I hope everyone understands what this poll ACTUALLY means?
USA:
Please find some way out of this that we can’t imagine, and is nothing
we have heard yet, because everything we have heard is impossible to
have trust in

Monday, March 30, 2015

French Fear Plans To Make Iran the KEY US Middle East Ally…

How France Became an Iran HawkThe French don’t trust Iran’s nuclear promises, but they don’t trust Washington much, either.

While
the White House has been pushing hard for consensus on the framework
for a deal ahead of the deadline, Paris has been pushing back.
“Repeating that an agreement has to be reached by the end of March is a
bad tactic. Pressure on ourselves to conclude at any price,” Gérard
Araud, France’s ambassador in Washington, tweeted on March 20. On
Tuesday, Francois Delattre, France’s ambassador to the United Nations,
said that Iran’s progress was “insufficient.”

The word from Paris
has been equally unsupportive of the U.S. push for a deal. “France wants
an agreement, but a robust one that really guarantees that Iran can
have access to civilian nuclear power, but not the atomic bomb,” French
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared on March 21.

What gives?
Is France’s Socialist President Francois Hollande actually a
neoconservative? Has Paris suddenly turned into a hawk among nations?

Not
quite. France’s policy is dictated by a set of principles with regard
to non-proliferation that have guided administrations on both sides of
the political spectrum in the talks with Tehran since 2002. And the
tension with Washington is just one expression of a larger disagreement
between the two countries over U.S. strategy in the Middle East.

Differences between Washington and Paris have been quietly brewing for months.

READ IT ALL
I don’t even know what to say anymore?
Do we have to impeach and convict Mr. Obama to save the USA sometime in the next 5-20 years?

Question Left Open-Ended In Order To Maintain a Modicum of Good Taste

Negotiation 101-in what way would we NOT gain by walking out in Switzerland today?

Nevermind what our goals might be, just TECHNIQUE
In a previous professional life I negotiated with BOTH administrative units, and unions.
Especially
given the Iranians balking at the west’s ‘leak’ that all U-235 was to
leave Iran for Russia, this is the moment to elicit a TELL by simply
saying ‘well, we tried, but I guess now the Senate will vote, next
week.’ and LEAVING THE NEGOTIATIONS. If they want ANY deal at all, they
call FAST. But I think their desire was to drag these negotiations out
as long as they could so they had freedom to do what they need to do.
WFB:

Iran Wants More Nuke Concessions as Talks Hit Critical Stage
LAUSANNE,
Switzerland—Iranian negotiators are becoming rigid and unmoving in
their stance on a range of key nuclear issues in talks, according to
multiple sources familiar with the negotiations who said Tehran is
angling to elicit as many concessions as possible from the United States
as the talks reach a critical stage ahead of the looming March 31
deadline.
Iran is pushing for major relief from economic sanctions
and the ability to continue sensitive research and development on the
nuclear and weapons fronts, according to sources quoted in the Iranian
state-controlled press on Sunday.
The Iranian side is said to be
digging in its heels over these issues as U.S. diplomats rush to
finalize a tentative agreement ahead of a self-imposed March 31
deadline.
“Sanctions and research and development are the areas
where Iran and the G5+1 still have differences,” one source close to the
Iranian diplomatic team was quoted as telling Fars News on Sunday.
Western
sources familiar with the U.S. stance confirmed the sticking points and
told the Washington Free Beacon that the pressure from Iran is likely
to force the Americans to offer more concessions on these fronts than
have previously been on the table.
“The Iranians are again
outplaying the Americans,” said one source in Europe familiar with the
negotiations. “They know they’ll have to give up certain things
eventually. So they’re digging in their heels on issues that mean
everything and preparing to give ground on relatively minor issues—but
not yet, and not until they see how much more the Americans are willing
to give.”
Previous concessions by the United States appear to have
motivated Iran to push harder on issues such as the possible military
dimensions of its nuclear program, as well as continued work on advanced
centrifuges and increased sanctions relief, according to a second
American source apprised of the demands being set forth.

How Obama’s demonic Israel compulsion is about to END the UN

Today in the Washington Post Jackson Diehl has this to say:

Obama’s next earthquake
By
declaring Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations dead and blaming
Netanyahu, Obama laid the predicate for a decision to go forward with a
U.S.-backed U.N. Security Council resolution that would set the terms
for a final peace settlement. Envisioned as an updating of U.N.
Resolution 242, which has been part of the framework for the Mideast
“peace process” since the 1960s, the idea would be to mandate the
solution to the questions Israelis and Palestinians have been unable to
agree upon for decades, such as the future status of Jerusalem. Not
incidentally, it would provide Obama with the Mideast legacy he has
craved since his first day in office.
Whether or not it
accelerated Palestinian statehood (and most likely it wouldn’t), Obama’s
initiative would set off an earthquake in U.S. foreign relations and
for Israel’s standing in the world. For nearly half a century, the
United States has taken the position that the terms for a peace
settlement between Israelis and Palestinians must come about as the
result of negotiations and not as an imposition by outside parties. At
the United Nations, it has been a given that Washington will veto
resolutions that aim to compel Israel to accept terms.
Now Obama
is contemplating going forward with a resolution that was drafted last
year by Secretary of State John Kerry and his Mideast negotiations team
at the State Department. The language was drawn up in response to
efforts by the Palestinians and France to win support for Security
Council resolutions following the collapse of Kerry’s attempt to get
Israeli and Palestinian assent to a “framework agreement.”

In
fact, Obama’s DISREGARD for the public, now clearly waking up to being
euchred in too many ways, will usher in a period of Republican
presidency, and republicans majorities in the House, and close to a veto
proof one in the Senate.
This president will then find, in Jan
2017 UN Security council resolutions, and possibly SANCTIONS against
Israel which he will have promised to reverse. He will then instruct all
executive arms to DISREGARD all sanctions, and get a law stating the
same through congress which he will sign.
We will then see the
world divide between a POSSIBLE Chinese international banking system
which MIGHT keep to whatever China leans towards in terms of sanctions,
and the USA and World Bank which will ignore them.The Chinese are pretty
amoral, so who knows what considerations might be critical then? They
may have defense deals with Israel going on after Obama jettisons
Israel.
UN sanctions and resolutions will thus end having ANY
legitimacy, and US support for the UN in ANY MANNER will be a debating
point. Even TODAY, the Senate is questioning any further US economic
support for the UN if the Iran nuke deal is implemented thru the UN
instead of congress.
And THAT will be that.
It will make nice condos, on the east side, anyway.
XO XO.

Reports: Chemical Weapon Bombs Air Dropped on Syria City Captured by Anti-Assad Forces

As volatile as the Middle East is, we can never know for sure who will be in charge of any given nation next year, or next week.

And yet, our President wants Iran to have nuclear weapons.

So, for instance, if Houthi Rebels, or ISIS, or Boko Haram take over Iran, well, they would have access to nukes.

That's ok, right?

Fuck Obama.

Click on the link below for the whole story

Syrian activists are reporting on Twitter the city of Idlib has been attacked with chemical weapon barrel bombs early Monday morning local time. The reports from various sources have not as yet been confirmed by the mainstream media.

Muslim Judge Finds Christian Guilty (of quoting Leviticus) in Britain

The first is that the judge who found Mr Overd guilty is a Muslim by the name of Shamim Qureshi who also presides over Sharia courts in England. Now, no matter how unpleasant the Leviticus quote might be, the idea that a Muslim activist can find a Christian guilty of quoting the Bible in Christian Britain must surely set some alarm bells ringing, one would have thought.

But apparently not. This outrage was reported by Christian Today several days ago and has been completely ignored by the mainstream media, which no doubt agree that prosecuting Christians is quite right if they dare to question the Holy Grail of progressive liberal orthodoxy. Clearly PC Plod thought the same thing too, as did the Crown Prosecution Service, which as an institution has not so much been long marched through than steam-rollered into a Soviet-style apparatus redolent of Stalin’s Show Trial era.

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Militants from extremist group Boko Haram attacked
several Nigerian towns, torching houses and fatally shooting those who
fled before reportedly beheading some of the bodies with chainsaws. The
string of terror attacks comes amid the presidential vote.

At least 25 people were killed and more than 30 injured in the village of Buratai in Borno state, local officials confirmed.

Surviving witnesses described gruesome scenes of murder, saying that
not only did the extremists set homes on fire and shoot those trying to
escape, but also decapitated the bodies.

Local politician Ibrahim Adamu, who fled the scene, told CNN that Boko Haram “slaughtered their victims like rams and decapitated them,” adding
that “they burned a large part of the village and we are afraid some
residents were burnt in the homes because most people had gone to bed
when the gunmen struck.”

Obama Allies, Including David Axelrod Firm, Have Been Working To Elect Sharia-Favoring Presidential Candidate In Nigeria

On Saturday, Nigerians will go to the polls to choose their president. The race pits an incumbent with an imperfect record against a former military dictator who has flirted with Islamism.

As with the recent election in Israel, alumni of Obama are aiding the challenger — and not because he would make the region safer.
The decision Nigerians will make this weekend matters greatly, both for themselves and the West.

Nigeria has Africa’s largest economy, with a gross domestic product of about $500 billion. It is a major energy producer and exporter, but also a political and cultural bellwether: the nation of 177 million is divided almost equally between Christians and Muslims.

Nigeria’s problems are serious, ranging from endemic corruption to a spiraling jihadist insurgency. The economy is growing but the unemployment rate exceeds 20 percent.

Transparency International, which ranks nations by the absence of corruption, places Nigeria at an undesirable 136th out of 175.
Far more concerning, Boko Haram, the foremost jihadist group in Nigeria, has waged a bloody Islamist insurgency.

This month, the group’s leader pledged allegiance to ISIS, whose own reach now includes parts of North Africa.
The challenger in Saturday’s election, Muhammadu Buhari, blames incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan for these problems.

Buhari recently remarked, “if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.”
That sounds appealing: corruption repels foreign capital and creates misery for those without privilege. But Buhari’s medicine may be worse than the disease.

His prescriptions range from the facile, like passing a whistleblower law, to the dangerous, like expanding the use of sharia — Islamic law that is enacted and enforced by clerics rather than democratic institutions.

Netanyahu: Iranian Nuclear Deal Even Worse Than We Thought

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned on
Sunday the framework Iranian nuclear agreement being sought by
international negotiators, saying it was even worse than his country had
feared.

Israel has mounted what it terms an “uphill battle” against an
agreement that might ease sanctions on the Iranians while leaving them
with a nuclear infrastructure with bomb-making potential. Tehran says
its nuclear program is peaceful.

“This deal, as it appears to be emerging, bears out all of our fears,
and even more than that,” Netanyahu told his cabinet in Jerusalem as
the United States, five other world powers and Iran worked toward a
March 31 deadline in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Noting advances made by Iranian-allied forces in Yemen and other Arab
countries, Netanyahu accused the Islamic republic of trying to “conquer
the entire Middle East” while moving toward nuclearization.

“The Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis is very dangerous to humanity, and must be stopped,” he said.

Netanyahu’s campaigning against the nuclear negotiations crested on
March 3 with his speech to the U.S. Congress at the invitation of its
Republican speaker, John Boehner, that angered President Barack Obama
and many fellow Democrats.

New York Times Oped: To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran

In theory, comprehensive international sanctions, rigorously enforced and universally adhered to, might have broken the back of Iran’s nuclear program. But the sanctions imposed have not met those criteria.

here is now widespread acknowledgment that the rosy 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which judged that Iran’s weapons program was halted in 2003, was an embarrassment, little more than wishful thinking.

The inescapable conclusion is that Iran will not negotiate away its nuclear program.

Nor will sanctions block its building a broad and deep weapons infrastructure.

Tory Vote Fixer Wrote Pamphlet Calling on Jihadis to Create Muslim state in Europe, Thinks Nazi Were Misunderstood, Jews Control the World

The Tory Election candidate exposed for plotting with far-Right extremists to stir up racial hatred is a former member of a fanatical Islamic sect that believes the Nazis were misunderstood and that Jews control the world.

Afzal Amin, who resigned after The Mail on Sunday published undercover recordings of him meeting the English Defence League, joined the Birmingham wing of the Murabitun, a fundamentalist cult which questioned the Holocaust and praised Hitler.

In 1992 when Amin was 18, he left the group, founded by Scottish hippy Ian Dallas, after becoming disillusioned.

In the pamphlet Amin – described last week by a colleague as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ – demeans women and calls for restaurants that serve alcohol to be burned.
The book, which is entitled Ian Dallas: The Shaykh Who Has No Clothes, criticised the group for not being radical enough.

That's "Racist"

Warm Foothills

Global Warming Is a Scam - Heads of IPCC Tell Us, “Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection…One must say clearly that we redistribute the world’s wealth by climate policy"

The primary objective behind environmental activism related to anthropogenic global warming (AGW), aka “climate change,” is apparently not climatological, but rather is economic.

The revelation came not from “global-warming deniers,” but from the United Nations’ own Christiana Figueres, who serves as the Executive Secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change.

At a press conference in Brussels last month, the UN climate chief delineated the objectives of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations.

She revealed: “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”

She continued: “That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 – you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”

Capitalism has been the primary economic model of the west since the industrial revolution. Therefore, the only logical conclusion, based on her stated objective, is the eradication of capitalism and free market economics, to be replaced with a model based on monetary redistribution.

This we know by the redistribution calculations being developed by the UN’s IPCC for developed nations to pay “reparations” and “carbon offsets” to poorer countries based on carbon dioxide emissions.

While Figueres may have unintentionally disclosed the primary objective of the AGW alarmist movement within the UN, others are much less veiled. Naomi Klein, a self-defined “feminist-socialist,” environmental activist, and author of the book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” is explicit in her denunciation of capitalism as the source of global warming.

Her interview this week with Germany’s Der Spiegel underscored her denunciation of capitalism as the source of all evil in the world, including global warming. “The economic system that we have created has also created global warming. We can’t change the physical reality, so we must change the political reality.”

Such a conclusion is easy to accept if the AGW alarmist premise is embraced blindly, sans scientific validation.
Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III, explicitly affirmed the economic objective.

He said a few years ago: “Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection…One must say clearly that we redistribute the world’s wealth by climate policy…The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.”

Saturday, March 28, 2015

DEFUND THE $22 BILLION PER YEAR GLOBAL WARMING SCAM

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Close Media Aide To President Rouhani Defects During Iran Nuclear Talks, Says U.S. Negotiators Acting On Behalf Of Iran

A close media aide to Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, has sought political asylum in Switzerland after travelling to Lausanne to cover the nuclear talks between Tehran and the West.

Amir Hossein Motaghi, who managed public relations for Mr Rouhani during his 2013 election campaign, was said by Iranian news agencies to have quit his job at the Iran Student Correspondents Association (ISCA)….

In his television interview, Mr Mottaghi also gave succour to western critics of the proposed nuclear deal, which has seen the White House pursue a more conciliatory line with Tehran than some of America’s European allies in the negotiating team, comprising the five permanent members of the UN security council and Germany.

“The US negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal,” he said.

“The Saudis feel they are fighting for their very existence”

Scott Atran, a Mideast analyst with Artis Research who has worked closely with U.S. government agencies as a consultant

Daily Beast:

Over the last few days, U.S. forces in Yemen have been evacuated in haste, reportedly leaving behind troves of sensitive documents.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, underscored the chaotic development of events on the ground in Yemen. “We’re totally out,” he told our correspondent Tim Mak. “Yemen is going to be, in the president’s own words, a ‘model,’ [but] not of success, [instead] of absolute failure of our foreign policy.”

Since late last year, Tehran’s backing for the Houthi rebels has been increasingly obvious. They took control in the capital Sanaa in January, ousting President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi from his palace there, and they have been closing in on his displaced government in the southern Yemen city of Aden. Hadi is now reportedly in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

From the Saudi point of view, Iran is gaining strength in Syria, where it is the embattled Assad regime’s most important ally, in Iraq, where it is propping up the mainly Shiite central government, and now in Yemen. All of these countries are on Saudi Arabia’s borders, and, what is more, to the extent that pro-Iranian Shiite forces appear to be gaining momentum, that threatens to disrupt the fragile equilibrium in the oil-producing Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, which has a majority Shiite population. Partly because of fears the crucially important production from Saudi Arabia may be disrupted, oil prices rose dramatically on Thursday.“The Saudis are scared right now. They’re worried about Iran,” a U.S. official in contact with governments in the region told The Daily Beast. Riyadh may have notified the United States about their airstrikes, but they made it clear that they weren’t waiting for the American military to come to their aid, the official said.

Egypt seizes Bab el Mandeb ahead of Iran.. WAR AHEAD? Lead from behind

DEBKA:

In a surprise step, Egyptian marine naval and marine forces Thursday morning, March 26, seized control of the strategic Bab El-Mandeb Straits to foil Tehran’s plans to grab this important energy shipping gateway between the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Suez Canal,

Debka’s military sources report from the Gulf. Egypt disguised the raid as a counter-piracy operation. It rounded off the Saudi-led air strikes launched the same morning against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. These operations signaled the start of a major Sunni Arab revolt against Iran’s approaching takeover of Yemen, through its Houthi proxy, and advances in other strategic positions in the Middle East, with Washington’s support.

Conflict in Yemen risks spilling out into the busy sea lanes that pass it and potentially disrupt the narrow Bab el-Mandeb passage through which nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily to Europe, the United States and Asia.

Oil prices rose as much as 6 percent on Thursday after neighboring Saudi Arabia and its allies launched air strikes on Yemen that targeted Iran-backed Houthi rebels fighting to oust Yemen’s president.

The development is a gamble by the world’s top oil exporter to check Iranian influence in its backyard.

“The collapse of Yemen as a political reality and the power of the Houthis will enable Iran to expand its presence on both sides of the Bab el-Mandeb, in the Gulf of Aden and in the Red Sea. Already discrete numbers of Iranian naval vessels regularly sail these waters,” J. Peter Pham of U.S. think tank the Atlantic Council said.

Houthis attempting to control Yemen’s Bab El-Mandeb strait: source

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Recent advances by Yemen’s Houthi movement are part of an attempt to take control of the strategic Bab El-Mandeb strait off the Yemeni coast, military sources in the country said on Saturday.

This comes as three members of the group and three military personnel were killed on Friday evening as the armed Houthis attempted an attack on the Al-Khoukha military camp just south of the coastal city of Al-Hudaydah, close to the strategic waterway.

The Bab El-Mandeb, which connects the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea and Suez Canal, is one of the most important maritime corridors in the world, through which most of Yemen’s oil exports pass on their way to global markets.

Retired Yemeni brigadier-general Mohsen Khasrouf told Asharq Al-Awsat the group “has its eyes firmly on the Bab El-Mandeb strait” and that Friday night’s attack represented “the first step on the road to taking control” of the waterway for the Houthis and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Many in Yemen believe Saleh has been aiding the Houthis’ recent efforts to strengthen their hold over swaths of Yemen, which have seen them take control of the capital Sana’a and other parts of the country as well as military and government buildings and facilities.

Khasrouf said Saleh, a former army officer, still enjoyed great popularity within the Yemeni military, which he said the Houthis were now clearly attempting to control.

“The Bab El-Mandeb strait is not just related to Yemen’s security but to the security of the whole region,” Khasrouf said, adding that Iran was acting through the Houthis and attempting to gain control of the strait, which in addition to Iranian control of the strait of Hormuz, would give the Islamic Republic a strategic maritime advantage on the Arabian Peninsula’s surrounding waterways.

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IBA Quote of the Week.

"The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer." Egalite implies liberte. And always will. Let us hope our weapons are never needed — but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny."

"An Islamic regime must be serious in every field," explained Ayatollah Khomeini. "There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humour in Islam. There is no fun in Islam."

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"I want to be very, very clear, however: I understand and agree with the analysis of the problem. There is an imminent threat. It manifested itself on 9/11. It's real and grave. It is as serious a threat as Stalinism and National Socialism were. Let's not pretend it isn't."~~~~~Bono~~~~~